Pushenko Credit - Yves Dejardin Collection

Personal: Male. Born in Povalikha, Altay, Russia. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Barnaul Higher Air Force School and from Akhtubinsk Test Pilot School 1974 and 1983 respectively Soviet Air Force Test Pilot School. Soviet Air Force Test Pilot School.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Buran Group 3 Supplemental - 1990, Chkalov Group 5 - 1995. Inactive Entered space service: 11 May 1990. Left space service: 30 September 1996. Cosmonaut training March 1989 - April 1991.

Chief of the flight test office of NPO Radon in Moscow. In 2000 he became a test pilot at the State Research Institute Sheremetevo. Later he worked at the Akhtubinsk flight test center of GKNII.